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Lead data engineer

Glasgow (Glasgow City)
Data engineer
£70,000 - £85,000 a year
Posted: 8h ago
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Salary: £70,000 - 85,000 per year Requirements: Commercial and proven Lead Data Engineering experience. Hands-on experience delivering solutions on Azure Databricks. Strong PySpark and Spark SQL skills within distributed compute environments. Experience working in a Lakehouse/Medallion architecture with Delta Lake. Understanding of dimensional modelling (Kimball), including SCD Type 1/2. Exposure to operational concepts such as monitoring, retries, idempotency and backfills. Good energy and enthusiasm. Keen to grow within a modern Azure Data Platform environment. Comfortable with Git, CI/CD and modern engineering workflows. Able to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders. Quality-driven, collaborative and proactive. Responsibilities: Build and maintain scalable ELT pipelines using Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, PySpark and Spark SQL. Work within a Medallion architecture (Bronze - Silver - Gold) to deliver reliable, high-quality datasets. Ingest data from multiple sources including ChargeBee, legacy operational files, SharePoint, SFTP, SQL, REST and GraphQL APIs using Azure Data Factory and metadata-driven patterns. Apply data quality and validation rules using Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines expectations. Develop clean and conforming Silver & Gold layers aligned to enterprise subject areas. Contribute to dimensional modelling (star schemas), harmonisation logic, SCDs and business marts powering Power BI datasets. Apply governance, lineage and permissioning through Unity Catalog. Use Lakeflow Workflows and ADF to orchestrate and optimise ingestion, transformation and scheduled jobs. Help implement monitoring, alerting, SLAs/SLIs and runbooks to support production reliability. Assist in performance tuning and cost optimisation. Contribute to CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps to automate deployment of notebooks, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, SQL models and ADF assets. Support secure deployment patterns using private endpoints, managed identities and Key Vault. Participate in code reviews and help improve engineering practices. Work with BI and Analytics teams to deliver curated datasets that power dashboards across the business. Contribute to architectural discussions and the ongoing data platform roadmap. Technologies: Azure CI/CD Databricks DevOps Git GraphQL Support Power BI PySpark REST SQL SharePoint Spark Unity Cloud GameDev Fabric Python More: We are a leading FMCG company based near Glasgow, undergoing a major transformation of our data landscape. We are building a modern Azure Databricks Lakehouse platform, empowering our teams across Finance, Operations, Sales, Customer Care, and Logistics. Our team is focused on delivering high-quality solutions and fostering real progression opportunities within a growing data function. We offer a dynamic work environment that emphasizes collaboration, quality, and innovation, with the ability to directly impact multiple business domains. last updated 8 week of 2026

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